Parent Overview Year 1

Please find below our Parent Overview detailing what our children in Year 1 are learning this week.

Date w/c 08/12/25

Curriculum area	We are learning to…
Literacy	This week the children will be writing poems describing Colin the crisp packets journey drifting outside from place to place. The children will use their work we completed last week to help them describe the different environments and characters from the story using onomatopoeia and adjectives.
Maths	This week we will be looking at six, seven, eight and nine and that they lie between five and ten on a number line.  We will also look at numbers six to ten and that they can be partitioned in different ways. The numbers six to ten can be partitioned in a systematic way.
Phonics and Handwriting	Phonics: This week we will be recapping all the sounds we have learnt and revising our knowledge of long vowels focussing on ow, oa and o-e. Handwriting: Long ladder recap Tt and Uu
Wider Curriculum	RSHE – to understand what a ‘safe adult’ means and know adults at home and school that can help us RE – to understand the story of Hanukah History – to compare London landmarks then and now Art- consolidate learning from autumn 2 to show skills acquired to create a Christmas card, using blended/smudged pastel
Other Information	Bottle donations for Christmas Fair - Friday 12th Dec Christmas Fair – Saturday 13th December- 11pm-3pm Christmas Play ‘Hey Ewe!’ performances Tues 9th Dec @9.45 for Lime and half of Ivy Class Wed 10th Dec @ 9.45 for Clover and half of Ivy Class Fri 12th Dec - Flu vaccinations Thank you!

Please note this is a basic overview of the planning for this week. It is impossible to cover in this outline all the learning that takes place during a week! We also believe in listening to your children and responding to their interests and ideas therefore all our planning is flexible. Please note some of the learning will take place across more than one week and during some weeks the learning focus may not cover all curriculum areas.